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Hits of the 1940s and 1950s, including Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, and The Sound of Music; Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun; Frank Loesser's Guys and Dolls; and Lerner & Loewe's My Fair Lady.

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